Show elberta peach festival at hurricane the news Ns force editor angels and thea devil took wok in the liberia elberta two day festivities it hurricane ii and wednesday along n with ith nearly a hundred other resident residents of kt t george eorge there isasa great number of visitors from cedar city and other points in iron county points in ill kane katie county and other settlements in tins this county giving a gay holiday appearance to the active and enterprising little boin tonn n the hospitality of the town was extended to its ag guests and everybody was cared for and made comfortable the attendance on this occasion was fully as large as on previous elberta day festivals festi als pro probably babli larger and the big crowd seemed to thoroughly enjoy the occasion the fruit exhibit was exceedingly attractive and remarkably choice we doubt if better elberta peaches all points considered size color flavor etc could be grown gronn anywhere in the world there were melons of all kinds in abundance of delicious flavor as was fully attested at the fruit feast held later beautiful apple apples pears nectarines necta rines figs and other varieties of fruit all of which vias wa of superior quality from every point of view after the judged judges had passed on the fruit and awarded the prizes the fruit exhibit ni was as thrown it open and remained open till the feast on the evening of the beconi day prizes ii were ere awarded as follows liberia peaches thomas R reeve merrill hall 2nd and john hastings ard 3rd melborne Del demili fill ath best single peach thomas R reeve I 1 H Brads bradshaw hax 2nd and other varieties arie ties of peach samuel isom frank petty 2nd and pears bartlett samuel isom atkins hinton 2nd and apples frank ashton let james F grisham 2nd and figs figi samuel webb atkins hinton 2nd and malaga grapes baduel webb ift R P woodbury 2nd and beedles grapes samuel webb abt T 31 hinton 2nd and tokay grapes samuel leom Muse muscatel atel T M hinton black prince samuel isom market grape L H young 1st ast R P woodbury 2nd and Il Vias agust angust grape samuel isom best bea collection of watermelons Water melons I 1 E bradshaw J 11 W imlay and 2nd J W imlay ird bet single watermelon J IV imlay 1st ast J W iglai 2nd and bea collection of watermelons Water melons T ten en or more I 1 E bradshaw best collection of watermelons Water melons clifteen or more J IV imlay musk melon five or more N J workman single muk k melon amos workman there was field sports of several kinds during the two wo days and a theatre and dance the fir it evening and dancing the tile second evening among the sports were horse racing foot rac racing iniz bion clio busting cattle roping baseball etc hie game of baseball played on oil the first day toquerville la verkin vs hurricane resulted in a defeat defea 1 for hurricane the winning team playing against a team from st george next day in which the latter was victor vuth 1 ith a score of 15 to 12 at the conclusion of the ball g unea lines e tile fruit feast commenced tho the large and luscious watermelons water melons vv ni ere cut up and pas passed zed around among the crowd also the other varieties arie ties of fruit this thus was kept up tip till all had bad a sufficiency after winch which there was A great amount left dancing followed the tile fruit feast t and conc conclude ludd the fe festivities tivi ties which had been a source of enjoyment to BO 80 many TE 0 an exhibit that attracted prop ebli inore attention than even the best of if the tile fruits n was as that from the tile dry farina farms at kane bedland beds and short creek N X K palmer of the former pl place ice had bid a mammoth squash that the editor measured winch which proved to be 04 inches in circumference also some fully fulli matured corn he the cars of winch which were 13 14 inches long SOUK soni fine watermelons water melons f quash and beans all of which biad been grown groin n NN without ith irrigation W W rust of short creek creel had a bialk of corn 9 0 feet high the ears of which were large and perfect and some fine melons 0 t 0 there yas y as one feature of the atik that added neither honor nor glory to it and that mas isas the roping of yearling calves such an in exhibition is behind tho the advanced civilization that americans claim to possess and is degrading deK rading it is s id to think that not less than tons of the finest kind hind of elberta pinches will bo be a total lobb to the hurricane gron groi era Aers this year lear otting to the cost of transporting them to market the aitor saw 4 some fine fully matured corn that had been grown grow without irrigation by jarnes jep jedion on ind samuel porn out on the tile big plain there wis was about a dozen au automobile torno at the |